With the growing ubiquity of the Internet and its attendant culture of openness and sharing, profound changes have been taking place in teaching and learning. These changes have been compounded by the technological shift from “enterprise” to the consumer as the key force driving technical innovation. Consider the following questions, which many institutions are currently wrestling with as they review their strategic direction: What will the world of educational technology look like in a few years’ time if Microsoft are a niche supplier and Google, Amazon and Apple are the key players in the IT industry? What new opportunities are created when you open up not just educational resources, but also research and institutional data, journal publications and underlying software? How do we prepare for a world where BYOD, MOOCs and the flipped classroom are the norm, the number of HEIs is greatly reduced, and the very nature of the HEI as a concept has changed beyond recognition? In this session Martin Hamilton will take the group though some recent developments from Loughborough University that may help to inform institutional thinking.

1. The Perfect Storm
Understanding the Changing Face of Technology in Higher Education
BETT 2013 #bett_show
Martin Hamilton
http://martinh.net | @martin_hamilton
(Photo credit: Extreme Storm Manhattan, NYC, CC-BY Flickr user redpilotmedia)

2. But first: The Perfect Storm
I am not Kirstie Coolin!
Understanding the changing face of technology in higher education
BETT 2013 #bett_show

3. Themes
Picture credit: Wikimedia Commons

4. Themes
“The future is already here,
it’s just not evenly distributed”
-via @GreatDismal
Picture credit: Wikimedia Commons

5. Themes
“The future is already here,
jt’s just not evenly distributed”
-via @GreatDismal
• If proof were needed…
• Extinction Level Event?
• Kitten Break
• Open By Default Picture credit: Wikimedia Commons
• Hacking the Organization
• Case Studies

6. Proof, if proof were needed…

7. Extinction Level Event?
Picture Credit: David Kernohan, Michael Branson Smith

8. Extinction Level Event?
Make your own David Cameron poster via http://mydavidcameron.com

9. Extinction Level Event?

10. Extinction Level Event?

11. Via Flickr user nathonline
[Kitten Break]

12. Open by Default: KIS

13. Open by Default: RDM See: http://goo.gl/0kqNO
Research organisations will ensure that appropriately structured metadata
describing the research data they hold is published (normally within 12 months of
the data being generated) and made freely accessible on the internet; in each case
the metadata must be sufficient to allow others to understand what research data
exists, why, when and how it was generated, and how to access it
*…+
Research organisations will ensure that EPSRC-funded research data is securely
preserved for a minimum of 10-years from the date that any researcher ‘privileged
access’ period expires or, if others have accessed the data, from last date on which
access to the data was requested by a third party
From EPSRC Policy Framework on Research Data

14. Open by Default: RDM See: http://goo.gl/aVDGg

15. cf. #odifridays
Open by Default

16. Case Study: Mathscard See: http://goo.gl/aVDGg
Over 2 million mathscards have been distributed across the UK, and in England
alone over 75% of all schools and colleges have previously subscribed to the
free mathscards.
The A-Level and GCSE mathscard® apps are now both available to download
from BlackBerry App World, Apple’s app store, Nokia Store, Google Play Store.

17. Case Study: i2012 project
£7.5m initiative to bring in state of the art:
• Campus network (edge and core)
• IP telephony, VDI, data centre
Parternship with Logicalis, Cisco, NetApp

18. Case Study: Loughborough goes Google
See http://goo.gl/Uv7fk

19. Case Study: HPC Midlands

20. Case Study: HPC Midlands
• HPC on demand, delivered via JANET
• Consortium of Loughborough University &
University of Leicester
• Managed service delivered by Bull
• ISV support, e.g. ANSYS and CD-adapco
• Funded by EPSRC/BIS e-Infrastructure
initiative (£1m hardware grant + ‘recurrent’)

21. Case Study: Rolls Royce UTC

22. Case Study: M5 group / Kit-Catalogue

23. And finally… Credit: ZDNet.com

24. And finally… Credit: ZDNet.com

25. The Perfect Storm
Understanding the Changing Face of Technology in Higher Education
BETT 2013 #bett_show
Martin Hamilton
http://martinh.net | @martin_hamilton
(Photo credit: Extreme Storm Manhattan, NYC, CC-BY Flickr user redpilotmedia)